Catholic Public Domain Version
"And I said about her, as she was being worn away by her adulteries, ‘Even now, she continues in her fornication!’ "
— Ezekiel 23:43, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?”
“Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her, and she with them. ”
“Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].”
“Then I said about the one worn out by adultery,‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’”
“And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.”
“Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.”
“Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?”
They sent for men who were coming from far away, to whom they had sent a messenger. And so, behold, they arrived, those for whom you washed yourself, and smeared cosmetics around your eyes, and were adorned with feminine ornaments.
You sat upon a very beautiful bed, and a table was adorned before you, on which you placed my incense and my ointment.
And the voice of a multitude was exulting within her. And concerning certain men, who were being led out of a multitude of persons, and who were arriving from the desert, they placed bracelets on their hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.
And I said about her, as she was being worn away by her adulteries, ‘Even now, she continues in her fornication!’
And they entered to her, as if to a kept woman. So did they enter to Oholah and Oholibah, nefarious women.
But there are just men; these shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of those who shed blood. For they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
For thus says the Lord God: Lead upon them a multitude, and hand them over to tumult and to pillaging.